Twitter addiction
Okay so when I first heard about Twitter I thought "oh that is a cute idea but it sounds totally useless."
Eventually I got a Twitter account of my own so that I could post status updates for the comic and people would stop hitting F5 over and over again all night.* At this point my opinion was "okay MAYBE Twitter has its uses but it is still pretty dumb to be all 'oh hey guys I just had the most AWESOME sandwich for lunch.'"
Then I started following other people on Twitter. Dudes like RStevens and Paul Southworth who tweet basically ALL DAY. I was expecting to be annoyed by this but somehow it has become COMPELLING READING, even though the majority of people's posts are exactly the kind of "awesome sandwich" Tweets I thought were so "dumb" in the first place.
Now I'm completely addicted. I find myself following more and more people (right now I'm sticking to folks I know personally either via Internet or Real Life). The highlight of getting in to the office is catching up on Twitter while I drink my coffee and responding to people's tweets where appropriate. The other day I think I must have made like twenty posts in an afternoon.
The appeal of Twitter, for me, is the CONTENT: constant streams of new things to read, all day, every day. It's the same reason I've been reading Jerkcity for the last, oh, eight years:† even if not every new bit of content is funny, enough of it is to make the aggregate worthwhile.
So Twitter, I wasn't wrong about you. You are a web application with genuine uses, but 99% of your content is "awesome sandwich" inanity. And I think that is totally awesome and fun. I have become a Twitterer, for better or worse.
PS: My Twitter name is "jephjacques" in case you want to follow me.
*This has not worked.
†Holy shit you guys Jerkcity is TEN YEARS OLD this August.
Eventually I got a Twitter account of my own so that I could post status updates for the comic and people would stop hitting F5 over and over again all night.* At this point my opinion was "okay MAYBE Twitter has its uses but it is still pretty dumb to be all 'oh hey guys I just had the most AWESOME sandwich for lunch.'"
Then I started following other people on Twitter. Dudes like RStevens and Paul Southworth who tweet basically ALL DAY. I was expecting to be annoyed by this but somehow it has become COMPELLING READING, even though the majority of people's posts are exactly the kind of "awesome sandwich" Tweets I thought were so "dumb" in the first place.
Now I'm completely addicted. I find myself following more and more people (right now I'm sticking to folks I know personally either via Internet or Real Life). The highlight of getting in to the office is catching up on Twitter while I drink my coffee and responding to people's tweets where appropriate. The other day I think I must have made like twenty posts in an afternoon.
The appeal of Twitter, for me, is the CONTENT: constant streams of new things to read, all day, every day. It's the same reason I've been reading Jerkcity for the last, oh, eight years:† even if not every new bit of content is funny, enough of it is to make the aggregate worthwhile.
So Twitter, I wasn't wrong about you. You are a web application with genuine uses, but 99% of your content is "awesome sandwich" inanity. And I think that is totally awesome and fun. I have become a Twitterer, for better or worse.
PS: My Twitter name is "jephjacques" in case you want to follow me.
*This has not worked.
†Holy shit you guys Jerkcity is TEN YEARS OLD this August.